KAREN MALPEDE

Karen Malpede's thirteen plays have premiered in New York City produced at: Theater for the New City, Classic Stage Company, TSOa-NYU, on Theater Row, at the Fourth St. Theater, the Culture Project, and at: Theater J, Cleveland Public Theater, and read at the Kennedy Center and New York Theater Workshop. She has had productions of three of her plays in London, Berlin, austria, Australia, and Italy. Her short fiction, plays and essays are published in anthologies and literary journals. She is author of a Monster Has Stolen the Sun and Other Plays. Obie awards, acting and set design, for "I Will Bear Witness" which she conceptualized, adapted and directed. McKnight National Playwrights' Fellowship; NYFa Playwriting Fellowship; Pushcart Prize nominee. She is known for a body of work that bears witness to resistance to the wars and violence of the 20th and 21st Centuries.

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A roller-coaster ride, surreal and real, through the past ten years, Another Life tells of the titanic struggle between a mogul and his physician daughter who become embedded in the war on terror/torture program. Greed, war-lust and sexual enslavement lead to a subtle but growing resistance and whistle-blowing. - nytheatre.com

A roller-coaster ride, surreal and real, through the past ten years, Another Life tells of the titanic struggle between a mogul and his physician daughter who become embedded in the war on terror/torture program. Greed, war-lust and sexual enslavement lead to a subtle but growing resistance and whistle-blowing. -

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in angels of Power and other Reproductive Creatures, ed by Susan Hawthorne and Renate klein, Spinifex, Australia, 1994 -

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An Artic scientist battles his twin sistera publicist for the energy industry over climate change

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Theater for a New City, New York
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1933-1945, the story of Victor Klemperer, as edited from his diary and in his own words. Survival during the Holocaust of a great diarist; Victor Klemperer was married to an aryan woman and kept an illegal diary during the Hitler years.

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Obie Award for Acting And scene design

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Classic Stage Company, NYC
2001

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Classic Stage Co.

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In the words of Iraqi civilians, US soldiers and un-embedded journalists, the story of the first two years of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Names of Iraqi and U.S. victims of war are read. a ritual documentary with original and arab music.

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original music for harp by Milos Raikovich

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Cuny-Graduate Center Proshansky Auditorium
2005

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Culture Project

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in a Century of Plays by American Women, ed by Rachel France, Richard Rosen Press, NY, 1979 -

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In Prophecy , history, myth and memory erupt inside a marriage when a troubled acting student and an estranged daughter make claims upon the affections of Sarah and Alan Golden. With humor and compassion, Prophecy explores the layered legacies of wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Lebanon through the lives of complex, well-intentioned people and shows the possibility of reconciliation which coexists alongside tragedy.

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Prophecy has had workshop readings At the Kennedy-Center's Page-to-Stage Festival; the Makor/Steinhardt Center of the 92nd St. Y.; English Language theatre, Berlin, Germany; And New York theater Workshop:

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Workshop: New York Theater Workshop
2007

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Theater Three Collaborative, Inc

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in Best Women's Monologues for the Millennium & Best Men's Monologues for the Millenium, Applause, 2007 -

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